But on Saturday, the Washington Post reported that a source familiar with the in-house probe has turned up 11 instances in which Williams “publicly embellished details of his reporting exploits.”

Those stretchers include Williams’ false claim that at the start of the Iraq War, he’d been in a military helicopter that was hit by rocket fire.

More recently revealed fibs include his claim Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” that he “made eye contact” with a violent, horse-riding soldier in Tahrir Square in Egypt when in fact he’d watched the tumult from his hotel balcony.